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Ari Aster's 'Eddington,' about America losing its mind in 2020, finds a mixed reception at Cannes
May 17, 2025 - 5:18 AM

CANNES, France (AP) — Ari Aster's COVID-era Western “Eddington,” about a 2020 America quickly losing its mind to conspiracy theories, TikTok and political extremism, premiered to a mixed reception at the Cannes Film Festival.
Still finding trouble in the woods: 'Blair Witch Project' star at center of Maine road dispute
May 16, 2025 - 9:13 PM

FREEDOM, Maine (AP) — Heather Donahue is walking through the woods once again. The star of the successful low-budget horror movie “The Blair Witch Project” has an on-screen history of getting into scary situations in a forest.
Photo group says it has 'suspended attribution' of historic Vietnam picture because of doubts
May 16, 2025 - 5:51 PM

An organization that honored The Associated Press' Nick Ut with its “ photo of the year ” in 1973 for a picture of a girl running from a napalm attack in the Vietnam War says it has “suspended its attribution” to Ut because of doubts over who actually took it.
Kazuo Ishiguro: 'When you go from book to film, that’s a fireside moment'
May 16, 2025 - 5:14 PM

CANNES, France (AP) — Kazuo Ishiguro 's mother was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped.
Bono: 'The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime'
May 16, 2025 - 3:49 PM

CANNES, France (AP) — Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a “delayed adolescence.”
The Latest: Singer Dawn Richard takes the stand
May 16, 2025 - 3:01 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Dawn Richard took the witness stand late Friday afternoon after R&B singer Cassie testified for a fourth day in Sean “Diddy” Combs ’ sex trafficking trial.
What's happened at the Cannes Film Festival so far - and what's still to come
May 16, 2025 - 2:19 PM

CANNES, France (AP) — This year's Cannes Film Festival just got going this week, but it's already been an attention-grabbing affair, from new rules for its red carpets, nerves about potential U.S. tariffs and the return of Tom Cruise.
Cannes promotional stunts, once a feature of the festival, go missing
May 16, 2025 - 12:56 PM

CANNES, France (AP) — You can get nostalgic about almost anything at the Cannes Film Festival, even Jerry Seinfeld on a zip line in a bumblebee costume.
Like it or not, the Like button has changed the world
May 16, 2025 - 12:24 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The internet wouldn't be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip.
What Depardieu's conviction and Cannes' response means for #MeToo in France
May 16, 2025 - 10:10 AM

PARIS (AP) — For powerful men in France’s film industry, this was a week of reckoning. Gérard Depardieu — the country’s most famous male actor — was convicted of sexual assault. Two days later, the Cannes Film Festival barred another actor accused of rape from walking the red carpet.
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Iconic Penticton Peach concession stand back in local hands
After a few years with an out-of-town operator, The Peach concession stand in Penticton has a local one. Ice cream and sweets shop Tickleberry’s is going to be operating the stand this summer as well as the Skaha Main concession stand

Pennsylvania House advances bill legalizing recreational marijuana
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvanians 21 or older would be allowed to legally purchase and use marijuana under a bill that passed the state House on Wednesday, the first time a recreational cannabis proposal has been approved by either legi

Property management company fined twice for ignoring asbestos issue at same Vernon building
A BC property management company, fined $9,000 for failing to deal with asbestos dust when it ripped up vinyl flooring at a Vernon property, has been stung with a further $18,000 fine when inspectors following up found it still flouting the rules

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Ari Aster's 'Eddington,' about America losing its mind in 2020, finds a mixed reception at Cannes

Still finding trouble in the woods: 'Blair Witch Project' star at center of Maine road dispute

Photo group says it has 'suspended attribution' of historic Vietnam picture because of doubts

Kazuo Ishiguro: 'When you go from book to film, that’s a fireside moment'

Bono: 'The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime'

The Latest: Singer Dawn Richard takes the stand

What's happened at the Cannes Film Festival so far - and what's still to come

Cannes promotional stunts, once a feature of the festival, go missing

Like it or not, the Like button has changed the world

What Depardieu's conviction and Cannes' response means for #MeToo in France

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